Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Apache FOP...

[Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano@iccu.sbn.it>]

Carlos wrote:

>Same thing happened to me. Norm looked at the document and realized that
>it's not wellformed XML to begin with. Run it through a validating parser
>and see what it tells you.
>
Dear Carlos, I checked my documents with Xerces-J version 2.0.0beta4, 
and it says that they're well formed and valid. I used the sample 
utility sax.Counter with the "-v" option to turn on validation.

Here is a short document (named a.xml) which is valid but can't be 
converted to PDF:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "/usr/local/lib/docbookx/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
  <articleinfo>
    <abstract>
      <simpara>
        Trivial notes...
      </simpara>
    </abstract>
    <author>
      <firstname>Andrea</firstname>
      <surname>Giuliano</surname>
    </author>
  </articleinfo>
  <section>
    <title>DocBook</title>
      <para>
        Very interesting, but you need much time to waste...
      </para>
  </section>
</article>

Now, see what happens:

$ java sax.Counter -v a.xml
a.xml: 2716 ms (10 elems, 0 attrs, 66 spaces, 107 chars)
$ java  org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process
  -IN file:///home/giuliano/iccu/appunti/sparsi/a.xml
  -XSL file:///usr/local/lib/docbook-xsl-1.48/fo/docbook.xsl
  -OUT a.fo
file:///usr/local/lib/docbook-xsl-1.48/fo/docbook.xsl; Line 94; Column 
16; Making portrait pages on USletter paper (8.5inx11in)
$ fop a.fo a.pdf
[INFO]: FOP 0.20.2
[INFO]: building formatting object tree
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[ERROR]: property 'master-reference' ignored
[WARN]: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet.
[ERROR]: 'master-name' for 'fo:page-sequence'matches no 
'simple-page-master' or 'page-sequence-master'

The result of the above session if a 15 bytes long file name a.pdf!

I don't know what to do now!

Anyway, thanks a lot for your answer.

-- 
Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
Virtual System Administrator
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